Calvinism a life-system - pagina 249

CALVINISM AND THE FUTURE. gleam of the

The

ideal.

of

fire

245

higher enthusiasm

all

has been quenched, only the dead embers remain. midst

the

weariness of

of the

what can

life,

In

restrain

the disappointed from taking refuge in suicide? Deprived

of the wholesome influence of stimulated and over-exerted

till

the brain

rest,

is

over-

the asylums are no longer

Whether property be not syn.onymous with theft, becomes a more and more seriously mooted question. That life ought to be freeer and rnarriage less binding, is being accepted more and adequate for housing the insane.

more

on

an

The

proposition.

established

cause

of

monogamy is no longer worth fighting for, since polygamy and polyandry are being systematically glorified in

products

all

declared

superfluous

But

art

of

art,

ideal

its

cates

the

temporal .the

bells

make

above worth,

life

for the sake

pleases

live

gloomy.

and

intoxi-

time and for

in

their ears to the tolling of

and shut

The

whole view of

is

renders

it

lite-

of course

religion

demand, not

in

is

it

but because

of eternity.

And

this,

because

all,

school of art and

Thus people

senses.

things,

the

practical.

realistic

harmony with

In

rature.

of the

tendency

irrepressible life

concrete,

is

to

concentrated,

out of this modernized private Hfe there

emerges a type of

social

and

political life characterized

by a decadence of parliamentarism, by an ever stronger desire

for a dictator,

by a sharp

conflict

between pau-

perism and capitalism, whilst heavy armaments on land

and on

sea,

even at the price of financial

ideal of these powerful states

ruin,

whose craving

become the

for territorial

expansion threatens the very existence of the weaker nations.

Gradually the conflict between the strong and

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